Reliable Protection With Hp Lto 2 Backup Tape Devices

By Author: Frank Miller
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Government agencies, business enterprises and financial organizations are producing vast amounts of data, which is continuously increasing at a tremendous rate. As your organization is dependent on this data, therefore protection of this data should be your top most priority.

LTO ultrium format provides you the best economical data storage solution to recover from any disaster. HP is a market leader in data storage devices. HP ensures superior quality and incorporates advanced features in its backup storage products to better serve the business enterprises. Media interoperability is LTO tape format’s most powerful feature, which secures your technology investments.

Data managers prefer the HP LTO 2 tape devices for mid-range systems, workgroups and departmental servers. HP LTO-2 ultrium technology provides you the best combination of value and performance at a reasonable price. HP LTO-2 drives are intelligently designed to provide unmatched performance and cost effective backup operations.

HP ultrium LTO2 tape cartridge, part number C7972A, can hold up to 200GB / 400 GB of data. Strong base film ...
... of HP C7972A tape optimizes the signal strength and allows seamless tape movement even after repeated work cycles. With high capacity LTO2 tapes, you can fulfill your storage needs with fewer data tapes. This will help to lower your I.T costs and result in increased ROI.

Larger 64MB data buffer allows the HP LTO-2 drives to record half a terabyte of data in 2 ½ hours. Data throughput performance of HP LTO-2 drives is further enhanced by its state-of-the-art “dynamic data rate” mechanism. This breakthrough feature matches the tape speed with throughput of the host. The HP LTO2 drives can seamlessly alter their native data rate from 8 Mbps to 24 Mbps.

The readers will surely be pleased to know that both second and first generation LTO tapes are write/read compatible with HP LTO 2 drives. HP carefully focuses on the customer needs and accordingly designs its products to provide greater flexibility and benefits to the users. HP LTO2 drives offer SAS and ultra160 SCSI (LVD) connectivity options, which empowers the users to conveniently integrate the LTO-2 ultrium drives in complex storage environments and network servers with greater efficiency. Good news is that the SAS based LTO-2 ultrium drives can be directly connected to the SAS server with the help of either SAS host bus adapter (HBA) or SAS controller. HP LTO-2 SCSI tape drives perform brilliantly with Alpha-servers, HP ProLiant and other leading IBM, Sun and Dell servers. HP LTO 2 drives also support 1U rack mount configuration.

Best brands of LTO 2 tapes are:

Imation LTO-2 tape
16598

Fuji LTO2 tape
26220001

Dell ultrium LTO 2 tape
340-8701

Sony LTO2 tape
LTX200GWW

IBM LTO 2 tapes
19P5887, 08L9870

Fuji ultrium LTO2 tape
26220001

Archival life of HP C7972A tape is 30 years. The tape medium is packed in a strong cartridge shell for reliable protection from mishandling, unintentional drops and shocks.

You can confidently deploy the HP LTO2 devices in busy data centers and storage-intensive organizations, and comply with the rigorous data regulations.

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Frank Miller is the Marketing Manager of Backuptape and markets LTO 2 tape media and C7972A. He has vast experience in the marketing and trading industries and has been helping buyers who have the backup needs and guide clients about the technology.

Frank Miller
3984 Washington Blvd #503 Fremont CA 94538
Tel: 888-686-8273
Fax: 888-449-5050
Email: sales@backuptapes.net